New labour relations are being introduced in industries where they were technologically or politically unthinkable a decade ago.

The ideal remedy would be to eliminate the tax break altogether but that appears to be politically unthinkable.

Invariably, however, pundits are quick to dismiss these proposals as "politically unthinkable."

Mr. Giuliani's gift is his ability to make people think the politically unthinkable.

It would have been politically unthinkable to impugn her in any dictatorship or deliberative body on the globe.

Most such structural reforms have been considered politically unthinkable - until now.

It had been politically unthinkable for prosecutors to offer a deal to any defendant in the trade center bombing, which killed six people.

Tax increases to pay for military hardware, or a significant diversion of government spending from welfare to defense, are politically unthinkable.

Until very recently, tampering either with Social Security or its funding was politically unthinkable.

The package - politically unthinkable prior to the crisis and certainly not yet perfect - is indeed a major step forward.